China News Agency, Beijing, March 24. Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman Wu Qian said in response to a reporter's question on the situation in Ukraine on the 24th that China urges the US to make a comprehensive explanation of its domestic and foreign biological militarization activities and accept multilateral verification.
He also stressed that the United States owes the world a clear explanation.
These major issues of principle are by no means something that can be swept away by a frivolous "false information".
A reporter asked: According to reports, during the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the Russian side discovered that the United States has many biological laboratories in Ukraine.
The Russian Ministry of Defense recently released relevant documents saying that the United States carried out biological weapons research in the Ukrainian laboratory.
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Nuland admitted that Ukraine has "biological research facilities", and the U.S. side is cooperating with the Ukrainian side to prevent relevant "research materials" from falling into the hands of the Russian military.
A former official of the Ukrainian Security Service disclosed that the US biological laboratory in Ukraine is developing biological weapons.
what opinions do the Chinese have on this issue?
"We have noticed relevant reports." Wu Qian said that biological weapons are weapons of mass destruction, and biological militarization activities are a major issue concerning international peace and security and the security interests of all countries. It should arouse the high concern of the international community.
Wu Qian pointed out that, as the country engaged in the most biological militarization activities in the world, the United States has 336 biological laboratories in 30 countries around the world, and has also carried out a large number of biological military activities in Fort Detrick within its borders.
According to public disclosures, dozens of biological laboratories in Ukraine operate under the orders of the US Department of Defense.
The above-mentioned activities of the United States are seriously lacking in transparency, and there are security risks that cannot be ignored. Previously, a rare epidemic broke out in the locations of many overseas biological laboratories of the US military, which caused protests and doubts in many countries.
This is also an important reason why the US biological laboratory in Uzbekistan has aroused widespread concern in the international community.
"We can't help but ask, what is the real intention of the US side of these projects? Why doesn't the US side release the detailed information of these projects? What is the relationship between the US overseas biological laboratory and the US Department of Defense? If the US side's laboratory in Ukraine is only engaged in scientific research Research and disease surveillance, why is the US Department of Defense deeply involved? The United States has been exclusively opposed to the establishment of a multilateral verification mechanism for the Biological Weapons Convention for 20 years. Why?”
Wu Qian said that on these five issues, the United States owes the world a clear explanation.
These major issues of principle are by no means something that can be swept away by a frivolous "false information".
The spokesperson pointed out that China was once a victim of biological weapons, and has always advocated the complete prohibition and thorough destruction of all weapons of mass destruction, including biological weapons, and firmly opposes the development, possession or use of biological weapons by any country under any circumstances. .
China has always believed that the purposes and objectives of the Biological Weapons Convention must be strictly observed.
"We urge the U.S. side to respond to the concerns of the international community in an open, transparent and responsible manner, earnestly fulfill its obligations under the Convention, make a comprehensive explanation of its domestic and foreign biological militarization activities, and accept multilateral verification." (End)